ISBN:
0486218260
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 267 S.
,
zahlr. Ill.
Series Statement:
Dover fairy tale books
DDC:
398.21
Keywords:
Fairy tales
;
Tales
Abstract:
The 26 stories of "Guleesh", "the horned Women", "king OT̉oole and his goose", "the sea-maiden", "the shee an gannon and the gruagach gaire", "the lad with the goat-skin", the legendary " Dierdre", "Beth Gellert", and the other wonderful characters, the curses and hexes, the broken promises and granted wishes are accompanied by eight full-page plates, 37 drawings, and decorated capitals and end pieces ...
Abstract:
Twenty-six characteristic tales, both romantic and comic, from the folklore of the Celts of the British Isles, collected from both Gaelic and English speaking peasants
Note:
first publ. in 1968, is an unabridged republication of the work originally publ. in a limited ed. by David Nutt in 1892
